{"id":10746,"date":"2010-12-13T00:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T00:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10746"},"modified":"2015-07-22T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:40:39","slug":"aas-4570-passing-in-african-american-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10746","title":{"rendered":"AAS 4570 &#8211; Passing in African-American Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/artsandsciences.virginia.edu\/woodson\/courses\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">AAS 4570 &#8211; Passing in African-American Imagination<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Virginia<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/artsandsciences.virginia.edu\/woodson\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American &amp; African Studies<\/a><br \/>\nSpring 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alisha Gaines<\/strong>, Post-Doctoral Fellow (English)<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This course considers the canonical African American literary tradition and popular culture texts that think through the boundaries of blackness and identity through the organizing trope of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>. We will engage texts that represent passing as a liberating performance act, a troubling crime against authenticity, an economic necessity, and\/or a stunt of liberal heroics. By the end of the course we will evaluate how our thinking about passing inflects our understanding of supposedly stable categories of identity including gender, class, and sexuality as well as begin to think critically about the relationships between blood and the law, love and politics, opportunity and economics, and acting and being.<\/p>\n<p>Questions to be considered include: What do we make of a literary tradition that supposedly gains coherence around issues of racial belonging but begins by questioning race itself?\u00a0 <strong>What work does the highly gendered depictions of the \u201c<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tragic mulatta<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d figure (a mixed-race woman undone by her periled existence between two racialized worlds) do for, and to, African American literature? What happens when the color line crosses you?<\/strong>\u00a0 Or in other words, where is agency in this discussion?\u00a0 Do we really know blackness when we see it?\u00a0 Hear it?\u00a0 How (and why) is blackness performed and for (and by) whom?\u00a0 In what ways is identity shaped by who can and can\u2019t pass?\u00a0 How has globalization made blackness an even more accessible commodity?\u00a0 How has hip hop?\u00a0 And finally, aren\u2019t we all passing for something?<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/artsandsciences.virginia.edu\/woodson\/courses\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAS 4570 &#8211; Passing in African-American Imagination University of Virginia The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American &amp; African Studies Spring 2011 Alisha Gaines, Post-Doctoral Fellow (English) Duke University This course considers the canonical African American literary tradition and popular culture texts that think through the boundaries of blackness and identity through the organizing trope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,1196,8,6462,20],"tags":[4703,4702],"class_list":["post-10746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-alisha-gaines","tag-university-of-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41865,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions\/41865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}